Sort of a grudge match for Howard since Pitt pasted them last year, 70-46. (Anyone buying it? No? Moving on.)

The Bison are at .500 at the moment. They may have been thrashed by Old Dominion and Harvard but they dominated other opponents.

A revamped men’s basketball team is off to a 2-1 start after starting the season last weekend in Burr Gymnasium. The Bison defeated Washington College 69-52 last Friday and routed Gwynedd Mercy University 83-66 on the following Sunday afternoon.

Howard has not won the first two games of the season in over a decade, and with 10 new precocious freshman, more wins hope to follow over the next four years.

Optimism about Howard basketball. It’s the end of times.

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…In the end it ended with a loss.

On the plus side, at least Pitt didn’t lose to a team that hadn’t won a conference game since 2010. How ’bout them Jayhawks!

I can’t bog you down with too much on the game. I missed the first half because of work. So I didn’t see Savage take a first half beating behind an O-line that went back to what it has done in most ACC games — get blown past by oppsoing D-lines. The a big question mark of whether Voytik was going to be at QB for the second half. Didn’t see the first special teams breakdown. Didn’t see Pitt’s defense not stop UNC QB Marquise Williams on the ground — even though we all knew what he was going to do. Didn’t see the missed opportunities — interception dropped and fumble in the redzone. I really am not sure I have to stomach to go back and watch that first half.

So I joined the action with Pitt down 24-3 after halftime.

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